Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

It was as the last character in Love for Love that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his best portrait of her.

Joshua Hassan ( a young lawyer then, later Sir and Chief Minister ) was among the leading members of the association.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

Critics include many of the Pre-Raphaelites, and William Blake, the latter having published his vitriolic Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds ' Discourses in 1808.

Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his Time.

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

File: Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel 1725-86 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere, 1753

File: Sir Joshua Reynolds-Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney-The Archers-Google Art Project. jpg | Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769.

File:. Fig 1 Sir Joshua Reynolds The Age of Innocence.

Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( London: John Murray, 1865, 2 volumes ).

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

* A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1899 – 1901, 4 volumes ).

* F. W. Hilles, The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1936 ).

* Derek Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Personal Study ( 1958 ).

), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 2000 ).

), The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1798, 3 volumes ).

* D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, 1723 – 92 ( 1992 ).

* J. Northcote, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt.

* J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1818, 2nd edition, 2 volumes ).

* Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures ( 1995 ).

* The National Gallery: Sir Joshua Reynolds

* ' Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius ' exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery-21 November 2009 to 20 February 2010

* Artcyclopedia: Sir Joshua Reynolds

One of Keppel's lawyers commissioned Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland to paint a portrait of Keppel but Keppel redirected it to Reynolds.

On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.

The doctors Richard Warren and Sir George Baker believed Reynolds ' illness to be psychological and they bled his neck " with a view of drawing the humour from his eyes " but the effect of this in the view of his niece was that it seemed " as if the ' principle of life ' were gone " from Reynolds.

File: Reynolds Sir Joshua-Lady Caroline Howard. jpg | Lady Caroline Howard, 1778

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

In 2006, Adrien Jones, the president of the Owain Glyndŵr Society, said, " Four years ago we visited a direct descendant of Glyndŵr ( Sir John Scudamore ), at Kentchurch Court, near Abergavenny.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

The president of the court, Sir Isaac Coffin, wrote to the Admiralty and made several serious accusations against Bligh, including that he had influenced the officers to testify against Short.

He was a founder of the Royal Society ( president 1680 – 82 ), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal.

In October 1602, Boyle was again sent over by Sir George Carew, the president of Munster, on Irish affairs.

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.

: Sir, I have it in command from the president of the United States, to direct you to repair with all due speed on board the ship Constellation lying at Baltimore.

; Sir Howard Walter Florey ( professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain ): for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.

He was succeeded in 2001 by Sir Philip Craven, a British former Paralympic athlete, who remains president as of 2010.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS ( 13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830 ) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.

This conference formed and drafted a constitution for the New Zealand Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic and the following officers were elected: president, Sir William Fox ( New Zealand ); sixteen vice-presidents, including D. Goldie, Hori Ropiha, Sir H. A. Atkinson, L. M. Isitt, and Sir Robert Stout ; executive committee, F. G. Ewington, Edward Withy, George Winstone, H. J.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre, Ealing.

This society was governed by a council, at that time led by Sir Henry Thompson ( president and founding member ).

The liberal philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin was the college's first president, and was instrumental in its founding.

In 1983 to 1984, she was president of Edinburgh's Sir Walter Scott Club.

And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir Hans Sloane, their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner.